Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Hosea 2:16-20
by: Cheryl Steele.
Hosea and his wife, Gomer, provide us with an ideal example of physical and spiritual adultery. Gomer was dissatisfied with her covenant relationship with Hosea and went looking for something she thought would be better, just as many of us do. Hosea went and redeemed her just as God does with us. This passage shows us just how much God wants to bring us back into a restored relationship with Him through a transformation of the Old Covenant into something brand new. Eventually, those of us who accept this New Covenant will find it impossible to be unfaithful to God.